Boaedon subniger HALLERMANN & HAWLITSCHEK, 2025
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| Higher Taxa | Lamprophiidae (Boaedontini), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
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| Synonym | Boaedon subniger HALLERMANN & HAWLITSCHEK 2025 Boaedon fuliginosus — SPAWLS, MAZUCH & MOHAMAD 2023: 443 |
| Distribution | Northern Somalia (Sanaag region, Somaliland (1760–1780 m asl) Type locality: 8.5 km south of Yuffleh (Yufle, Jooflie) (approx. 10° 18’ 00” N 47° 10’ 58” E, 1758 m), Sanaag region, Somaliland. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: ZMH r22350 (DNA voucher TMHC 2023.01.1018): a juvenile female, collected by Tomáš Mazuch, 31 August 2017, and donated to the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH) in September 2024 (Figs. 5, 6) |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (n=1). Boaedon subniger sp. nov. can be distinguished from most congeners by its dark brown to black- brown dorsal colour, without any light head stripes, two supralabials (4th & 5th) touching on eye and one preocular, touching the frontal. PAr is longer than the distance between the frontal and the rostral scale. venter whitish (for more characters see table 4). Boaedon subniger sp. nov. differs from B. broadleyi sp. nov. by having fewer MSR (, ͞X 27.0, versus 27–33, ͞X 29.1, only one preocular (versus two) and its blackish brown or dark brown body colouration without light coloured head stripes (versus reddish, olive-brown or light brown body colouration with two short white head stripes and lips whitish coloured), with no dorsals uncoloured (versus first two rows uncoloured in broadleyi sp. nov.). Boaedon maculatus has an additional row of scales between the supralabials and loreal between nasal and preocular scale, (versus no row of scales) and 10–11 supralabials (versus 8). Extralimital species: Boaedon montanus in its whole distribution area differs in having two at least short head lines and whitish upper and lower lips (versus no headlines and no whitish lips), Boaedon perisilvestris with similar colouration differs in having more MSR (29–31, ͞X 29.4 (versus 27 ͞X 27.0 in B. subniger sp. nov.) and frequently three supralabial scales touching eye (versus two in B. subniger sp. nov.) and a genetic interspecific distances of 0.024). B. paralineatus and B. capensis species complex differs in having clear head and/or body lines (versus no head and body lines in B. subniger sp. nov.) and a brown or reddish colouration (versus blackish brown colouration in B. subniger sp. nov.) (Hallermann & Hawlitschek 2025) Additional details (58 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
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| Etymology | Named after the latin word “subniger” for blackish, somewhat dark, from its blackish body coloration without any stripes on head or body. |
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